Laksa reigned supreme in the early 2000s, but the nation’s taste has changed – and what you slurp has a lot to do with where you live
Slurping your way through an Asian noodle soup is a much-loved Australian pastime, but our soup of choice is changing. According to Google Trends, in 2004 we were nose-deep in coconut-rich bowls of Peranakan laksa. Ten years on, we started airlifting ramen noodles from their Japanese tonkotsu, shoyu or miso broths. And while laksa has fallen, relatively, from favour and ramen continues its steep ascent, demand for Vietnamese pho has been more consistent; we’ve been adding bean sprouts to our beef-rich bowls of rice noodles for the past decade.
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